Northwest Coast Archaeology Books

A short running list of Northwest Coast archaeology books and project monographs. Please be in touch to suggest omissions and edits.

Northwest Coast Archaeology Monographs

Ames, Kenneth M. 2005 The North Coast Prehistory Project Excavations in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia: The Artifacts. International Series. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.

Burley, David V. 1989 Senewélets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden. Royal British Columbia Museum Memoir. Royal British Columbia Museum Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Municipal Affairs Recreation and Culture, Victoria, BC.

Cannon, Aubrey 1991 The Economic Prehistory of Namu: Patterns in Vertebrate Fauna. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Croes, Dale R. 1995 The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex: The Wet/Dry Site (45-CA-213), 3000–1700 B.P. Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA.

Croes, Dale R. 2005 The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex: The Rockshelter (45CA21), 1000–100 B.P., Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA.

Croes, Dale R. 2019 Basketry from the Ozette Village archaeological site: a technological, functional, and comparative study. Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports Volume 4 Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Fladmark, Knut R. 1985 Glass and Ice: The Archaeology of Mt. Edziza. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Hayden, Brian 1997 The Pithouses of Keatley Creek: Complex Hunter-Gatherers of the Northwest Plateau. Case studies in archaeology. Harcourt Brace, Fort Worth.

Haggarty, J.C., Sendey, J.H.W., 1976. Test excavation at the Georgeson Bay Site, Gulf of Georgia Region, British Columbia, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria

Matson, R. G. (editor) 1976 The Glenrose Cannery site. Mercury series, no. 52. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.

Matson, R. G. (editor) 2010 The Crescent Beach site and the place of the Locarno Beach phase. UBC Laboratory of Archaeology, Vancouver.

McMillan, Alan D., and Denis E. St. Claire 1982 Alberni Prehistory: Archaeological and Ethnographic Investigations on Western Vancouver Island. Theytus Books, Penticton.

McMillan, Alan D., and Denis E. St. Claire 2005 Ts’ishaa: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of a Nuu-chah-nulth Origin Site in Barkley Sound. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

McMillan, Alan D., and Denis E. St. Claire 2012 Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

McMillan, Alan D., Gregory G. Monks, and Denis E. St. Claire 2023 The Toquaht Archaeological Project: Research at T’ukw’aa, a Nuu-chah-nulth village and defensive site in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island. International Series. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.

Mitchell, Donald H. 1988 The J. Puddleduck Site: A Northern Strait of Georgia Locarno Beach Component and Its Predecessor. Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria.

Monteleone, Kelly 2019 Uncovering submerged landscapes: Towards a GIS method for locating submerged archaeology in Southeast Alaska. BAR Number: S2917. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.

Moss, Madonna L. 2004 Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers. University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene.

Moss, Madonna L., Justin M. Hays, Peter M. Bowers, and Douglas Reger 2016 The Archaeology of Coffman Cove: 5500 Years of Settlement in the Heart of Southeast Alaska. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers. University of Oregon Musuem of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene.

Muckle, Robert J. 2022 Forgotten Things: The Story of the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Reedy-Maschner, Katherine L., and Herbert D. G. Maschner (editors) 2012 Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History. Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello.

Wessen, Gary C., Stephan R. Samuels, and David R. Huelsbeck 2025. Exploring Faunal Assemblages to Identify Ethnic Groups Makahs, Quileutes, and Precontact Shell Middens on the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 26. Northwest Anthropology LLC, Richland.

Ozette

The site of Ozette deserves a whole category. Ten years of excavation and decades of analysis have been supported by the Makah Tribal Council in Neah Bay.

Samuels, Stephan R. (editor) 1991 Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports, Volume 1, House Structure and Floor Midden. Reports of Investigations Vol 63. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University and National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Regional Office, Pullman and Seattle.

Samuels, Stephan R. (editor) 1994 Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports Volume 2, Fauna. Reports of Investigations. Vol 66. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Whelchel, David L. (editor) 2005 Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports– Volume 3: Ethnobotany and Wood Technology. Reports of Research. Vol 68. WSU Department of Anthropology and National Park Service, Northwest Regional Office, Seattle.

Croes, Dale R. (2019) Basketry from the Ozette Village archaeological site: a technological, functional, and comparative study. Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports Volume 4 Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Kirk, Ruth 2015 Ozette: Excavating a Makah whaling village. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

NWC Archaeology Textbooks

Fladmark, Knut R., 1986. British Columbia Prehistory, National Museum of Man, Ottawa.

Matson, R.G., and Gary Coupland 1995 The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast. Academic Press, New York.

Dixon, E. James 1999 Bones, Boats and Bison: Archaeology and the First Colonization of Western North America. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Ames, Kenneth M., and Herbert D.G. Maschner 1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Thames and Hudson, London.

Moss, Madonna L. 2011 Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History. SAA Contemporary Perspectives. Society for American Archaeology Press, Washington D.C.

Muckle, Robert J. (forward by Karen Rose Thomas) 2025. Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells. UBC Press, Purich Books, Vancouver.

Prentiss, Anna Marie 2023 Ancient and Pre-modern Economies of the North American Pacific Northwest. Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Wilson, Douglas C. 2024. The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Edited Volumes

Boyd, Robert T., Kenneth M. Ames and, Tony A. Johnson (eds.), 2013. Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Fedje, D. W. and R. W. Mathewes (eds.), 2005. Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. UBC Press, Vancouver.

Magne, M. P. R. and E. R. Damkjar, 2023 (eds.). Archaeology on the brink: Papers in honour of John W. Brink. Occasional Paper 42, Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Edmonton.

Matson, R.G., G. Coupland and, Q. Mackie (editors) 2003. Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History. Pacific Rim Archaeology Series, UBC Press, Vancouver.

Prentiss, Anna M. and Ian Kuijt (eds.) 2004. Complex Hunter Gatherers: Evolution Organization of Prehistoric Communities Plateau of Northwestern North America. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Sobel, E. A., D. A. T. Gahr and, K. M. Ames (eds.), 2006. Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.

Suttles, Wayne P. (editor) 1990. Northwest Coast. Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., p. 777.

Regional Syntheses

Borden, Charles E., 1975. Origins and development of early Northwest Coast culture to about 3000 B.C, Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.

Burley, D. V., 1980. Marpole: Anthropological Reconstructions of a Prehistoric Northwest Coast Culture Type, Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Fladmark, Knut R., 1975. A Paleoecological Model for Northwest Coast Prehistory, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.

Hoover, Alan L., and Eugene Arima 2020 Northwest Coast Canoes of Indigenous North America: A Historical View of Styles and Development with contributions from Leslie Lincoln, Joe Martin, and J. D. Simpson. Northwest Coast Canoe Publications, Victoria.

McMillan, Alan D. 1999 Since the Time of the Transformers: The Ancient Heritage of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah. Pacific Rim Archaeology Series. UBC Press, Vancouver.

Thornton, Thomas F., and Madonna L. Moss 2020 Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Wilson, Robert L., and Catherine C. Carlson 1980 The Archaeology of Kamloops. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

Indigenous Anthropology

Arnett, Christopher, 2024. Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art, UBC Press, Vancouver.

Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda 2022 Silm Da’axk: Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Gitselasu Lahkhyuup. Mitchell Press, Vancouver.

Connaughton, Sean P. 2025. Unearthing Forgotten Values: Toward a Meaningful Archaeological Practice. UBC Press, Purich Books, Vancouver.

Coté, Charlotte 2022 A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast. Indigenous Confluences. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Deur, Douglas and Knowledge-Holders of the Quinault Indian Nation, 2022. Gifted Earth: The Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.

Hammond-Kaarremaa, Liz, Alison Ariss, Andrea Fritz, Janice George, Danielle Morsette, Eliot White-Hill, Jared Qwustenuxun Williams, Kerrie Charnley, Michael Pavel, Debra qwasen Sparrow, Susan sa’hLa mitSa Pavel, Senaqwila Sen̓áḵw Wyss, Snumithia’ Violet Elliott, Tyrone Elliott, and Xweliqwiya Rena Point Bolton 2025. The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park.

Martin, Joe and Alan Hoover, 2022. Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker, Royal BC Museum, Victoria.